S4 20: Suffering, Death, and Radical Human Dignity With Margaret Cottle
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Human dignity doesn’t end when suffering begins—but today more than ever our culture peddles the lie that it’s better to choose death than to suffer. Jesus has something better for us. Christ calls us to love every image bearer with His committed, sacrificial, persevering, and selfless love—even when those we care for can contribute absolutely nothing. As a palliative care doctor of over 30 years, Dr. Margaret Cottle has both witnessed and practiced this Christlike love that dignifies every human being from beginning to end. She shares how Christ transforms our experience of suffering, grief, death, and sacrificial love. Listen to be encouraged and inspired by the robust, Christian understanding of human dignity and the glorious responsibility we have to humbly give and receive care.
Dr. Cottle’s Website https://welcomeandwonder.com/
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The Normalization of Euthanasia in Canada, the Cautionary Tale Continues, by Dr. Margaret Cottle, Dr. John Scott, and Dr. Leonie Herx, World Medical Journal Nr. 2, April 2020 vol. 66
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| 0:00.0 | The lie of the enemy shouted from every rooftop is that those who follow their hearts will |
| 0:07.0 | find fulfillment. |
| 0:08.0 | But the dismal statistics on mental distress and suicide tell the sad truth. |
| 0:14.0 | It never delivers because it isn't true. |
| 0:17.0 | And don't follow your heart, boldly breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship. |
| 0:21.9 | Author Thaddeus Williams exposes and refutes the rules of self-worship that are enshrined in this |
| 0:28.0 | secular culture, including Live Your Best Life, and Love is Love. |
| 0:33.1 | Williams reveals the emptiness of these self-centered precepts and with theological vigor and personal |
| 0:39.6 | depth communicates in a way that is both humble and accessible, making this a worthy read for |
| 0:45.9 | Christians and non-Christians alike. But he doesn't stop there. He also offers a strong, |
| 0:51.9 | reasoned defense for why Jesus alone is worthy of our worship and trust, |
| 0:57.4 | and how that empowers us to live courageously. |
| 1:00.9 | Request your copy of Don't Follow Your Heart Today by visiting colsoncenter.org |
| 1:06.9 | forward slash SW.W. Williams Resource. Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 1:31.2 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman |
| 1:37.3 | and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. |
| 1:41.9 | I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:47.2 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast. Today, my guest is Dr. Margaret Cottle, who's an author, |
| 1:53.7 | speaker, and palliative care physician in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she's been caring |
| 1:59.3 | for terminally ill patients for over 30 years. She's also |
| 2:04.1 | a clinical assistant professor at UBC Medical School. Dr. Cottle and her husband, who's also a doctor, |
| 2:12.7 | have two adult children and five grandchildren, and they also have a black lab that ends up visiting |
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